Alesis Samplepad Announced

The ever-innovative and often insanely competitively priced Alesis have today announced the Alesis SamplePad, a sampling drum pad with 25 built-in sounds but also, crucially, the ability to load samples via SD card. So far, so Roland SPDS-X.

However, the difference here is that the Alesis Sample Pad is going to retail for a frankly astounding UK price of £99 inc VAT, meaning adding the sound of your grandmother snoring to your drum sets has become that much cheaper…